Historical Hookups

In this episode, educators Lauren and Sara hook Savanna up with the deets on the love life of Cleopatra. From marrying a few brothers to posing as a goddess on Earth to the ultimate relationship rebound, this episode will have you seriously re-evaluating your own sibling rivalries. 

Content Warnings: Swearing, murder, suicide, sex with minors, war

Theme music by Tipper Newton

In this episode, educators Savanna and Sara hook Lauren up with the deets on the love life of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott. From a race to the South Pole to throuples to a solid appreciation of flirting, this episode will make you wish you had a sweetie to not really see all that often.

Content Warnings: Swearing, death

Theme music by Tipper Newton

In this episode, educators Savanna and Lauren hook Sara up with the deets on the mystical life of Grigori Rasputin. From superpowers to rumored affairs to religious orgies, this episode will make you nostalgic for Anastasia (1993). 

Content Warnings: Swearing, murder, infant mortality, castration, rape, violence, adultery, sexual assault

Theme music by Tipper Newton

In this episode we're joined by guest Honora Talbott, educators Nelinda and Sara hook Lauren and Savanna up with the deets on the absolutely bananas life of world famous actress Josephine Baker. From topless dancing to spying for the Allies during WWII to opening a human zoo, this episode will have you wondering if she inspired Angelina Jolie in a very specific way. 

Content Warnings: Child marriage, assault, pedophilia, sexual/spousal abuse

Theme music by Tipper Newton

In this episode Lauren and Savanna hook Sara and Nelinda up with the details on the love life Alexander the Great. From many wives to a lightning bolt insemination to going out on your terms, this episode will have you saying, "What's all this about honey?"

Content Warnings: Sex slavery, rape, murder, war time things

Theme song by Tipper Newton

In this episode, educators Lauren and Sara hook Nelinda and Savanna up with the scandalous and busy AF love life of POTUS John Fitzgerald Kennedy. From a life of privilege yet never picking up the tab to being buds with the Rat Pack to a revolving door of the babes of Hollywood, this episode will have you custom ordering a prayer candle with Jackie's face on it because she was a saint. We are joined by guest Ryan Pigg of Netflix's Historical Roast.

Content Warnings: Swearing, drug use, miscarriages, gun violence

Theme music by Tipper Newton

In our next episode Sara and Lauren hook Nelinda and Sara up with the scoop on the sexy life of pirate queen Ching Shih. From prostitution to adult adoption to floating brothels, this episode will introduce you to the most successful pirate in the history of the world.

Content Warnings: Swearing, mentions of rape, mentions of non-biological incest, violence, murder, mutilation, beheading

Theme music by Tipper Newton

In this episode, educators Nelinda and Savanna hook Lauren and Sara up with the deets of the love life of silver screen starlet Louise Brooks. From a sexy touring dance company to an affair with Charlie Chaplin to something about Jack the Ripper (wait what!?), this New Years episode has everything to help usher us back into the roaring 20s. 

Content Warnings: molestation, sex, swearing, suicide

Theme music by Tipper Newton

In this episode, Lauren and Savanna hook Sara and Nelinda up with the exciting and empowering love life of the one and only Katharine Hepburn. From divorces in Mexico to being the other woman more than a few times, this week has the glitz and glamour of old Hollywood.

Content Warnings: Sex, adultery, suicide, drug use

Theme music by Tipper Newton

In this episode, Nelinda and Savanna hook Sara and Lauren up with the scoop on the exciting love life of Frida Kahlo. The crew chats about bus accidents, high passions and the lost art of painting your own selfie to keep a dude interested.

Content Warnings: Miscarriage, swearing

Theme music by Tipper Newton

In this episode, Lauren and Nelinda hook Sara and Savanna up with the sexy and not so sexy deets about England's first female serial killer, Mary Ann Cotton. Take a lesson from someone who used her feminine whiles to do some pretty heinous stuff- okay maybe don't learn from her but do enjoy! Content Warnings: Infant mortality, miscarriage, swearing, suicide, hanging, murder, strangulation Theme music by Tipper Newton

In a special Halloween episode, Sara and Savanna hook Lauren and Nelinda up with the most spooky and scandalous gossip about goth power couple Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. We dish about free love, graveyards, and the pros and cons of banging Lord Byron. 

Content Warnings: Infant mortality, miscarriage, sexual assault, swearing, suicide 

Theme music by Tipper Newton

This episode Nelinda and Savanna hook Lauren and Sara up with all the juicy details of Napoleon Bonaparte and Empress Joséphine's love affair, from clingy war letters to an oddly romantic divorce. 

Content Warnings: suicide 

Theme music by Tipper Newton 

Score was Struggle & Love by Dee Yan-Key https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dee_Yan-Key/A_Mans_Life/04--Dee_Yan-Key-Struggle___Love  Struggle & Love by Dee Yan-Key is licensed under a  Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International  License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/